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astro-ph.EP2026
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Wolf Cukier, Dominic Samra, Vighnesh Nagpal +3
Speculative fiction has long served an inspiration for genuine scientific inquiry. One notable work that has almost acted in this manner is the the seminal comedic speculative fict…
astro-ph.EP2026
Analytic Modeling of Tidally Locked Rocky Planet Atmospheres Across Dynamical Regimes
Christopher P. Wirth, Diana Powell, Robin Wordsworth
We present a new first-principles analytic approach to interpreting eclipses and phase curves of rocky planets. Observations with JWST have reported nondetections of atmospheres ar…
astro-ph.EP2024
On Kinematic Measurements of Self-Gravity in Protoplanetary Disks
Sean M. Andrews, Richard Teague, Christopher P. Wirth +2
Using controlled injection and recovery experiments, we devised an analysis prescription to assess the quality of dynamical measurements of protoplanetary disk gas masses based on…